Telling Tales
Telling Tales is a season dedicated to celebrating the stories that we share and the ways we share them. Myths, legends, lies, fairy tales, and family folklore blend to magnify the truths that make us truly human. Telling Tales promises to be a season of romance, comedy, love, and truth.
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
BY LUCY KIRKWOOD
DEVISED BY KATIE MITCHELL & LUCY KIRKWOOD
Directed by Philip J. Hickman
May 23 – June 16, 2024
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
A tale as old as time, retold with a magical new spin. Lucy Kirkwood’s Beauty & the Beast is full of fairy tale romance, comedy, and enchantment. The wickedly charismatic Man in Pink presents his version of events, casting a spell over Beauty, her cursed Beast, and a single red rose. Add a magical Rabbit and a personal assistant who wants to sing and presto! *
*This is not the version told by a Certain Mouse.
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CHICKEN & BISCUITS
BY DOUGLAS LYONS
Directed by Alan Tyson
June 20 – July 14, 2024
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
Chicken & Biscuits by Douglas Lyons debuted on Broadway in 2021. This hilarious family comedy about a funeral is the story of two sisters saying farewell to their father. They try to lay their own conflicts to rest while family secrets come to light and their kids try to let their own identities emerge at last. Funny, warm, and joyful, Chicken & Biscuits is sure to be a perfect show for a picnic at the park.
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TWELFTH NIGHT
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by Nina Martin & Rowan Winterwood
July 18 – August 11, 2024
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will is the Bard’s wild comedy of mistaken identity, lovesick servants, and literature’s most famous stocking-centered revenge plot. Orsino is in love with Olivia, who is in love with Cesario, who is really Viola in disguise, who is in love with Orsino! Meanwhile a drunken knight, madcap servants, and a wise fool negotiate their own romances and revenges.
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AN ILIAD
BY LISA PETERSON & DENIS O’HARE
Directed by Cat McAlpine
August 15 – September 1, 2024
Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm
Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage
An Iliad is Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s riveting retelling of Homer’s famous epic about war, cycles of violence, and what it means to change the narrative. Told by multiple poets and muses, this production of An Iliad will bring together the ancient and modern to explore the heart of humanity and the hope for a better tomorrow.
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